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by Craig Lesley  Publisher Comments Short story collection written by Native American authors.... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David W Samuels Publisher Comments As in many Native American communities, people on the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona have for centuries been exposed to contradictory pressures. One set of expectations is about conversion and modernization--spiritual, linguistic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Moffitt Publisher Comments O Brave New People explores the myths and preconceptions early European explorers brought with them to the New World and the ways in which such ideas have shaped misperceptions about American Indians to the present. Thinking he was in the Far East... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steph Dando Collins Publisher Comments In 1877, Standing Bear and his Indian people, the Ponca, were forcibly removed from their land in northern Nebraska. In defiance, Standing Bear sued in U.S. District Court for the right to return home. In a landmark case, the judge, for the first time in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Friday Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-274) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernestine Hayes Publisher Comments In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan De Ramirez Synopsis Since the arrival of Europeans on American shores, Native peoples have recounted stories about their encounters with the invading and colonizing outsiders. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the published narratives about the colonization of Indian... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Esther Blac Desersa Publisher Comments The story and teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950), first recorded by John G. Neihardt in Black Elk Speaks, have played a critical role in shaping the way in which Native Americans and others view the past, present, and future of Native ... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Irwin Publisher Comments Spirituality may be the most contentious and poorly understood dimension of Native American communities today. For generations the religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans have been the subject of public fascination and scholarly inquiry... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark H Brown Publisher Comments In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Padget Publisher Comments "Indian Country analyzes the works of Anglo writers and artists who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in the Southwest during the one hundred-year period beginning in 1840.... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Evan T Pritchard Publisher Comments Drawn from a variety of indigenous peoples of North America, these stories preserve the voices of Native communities by depicting their perspectives on creation, the origins of fire, the paths of their spiritual journeys, respect for the Earth, and more.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments For centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but when commercial whaling drove the gray whale to near extinction in the 1920s, the Makah voluntarily discontinued their tradition and hung up their... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Sando Publisher Comments Po?pay: Leader of the First American Revolution chronicles the history of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and its leader, Po?pay, with commentaries on the historical and cultural importance of these events. Drawing on their oral history and using their own... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dee Brown Publisher Comments This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American culture. Gathered from numerous tribes—Seneca, Hopi, Navaho, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sally Zanjani Publisher Comments This book is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844–91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native women in American history. Born into a legendary family of Paiute leaders in western Nevada, Sarah dedicated much of her... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by G M Mullett Publisher Comments The stories of Spiderwoman have been handed down from generation to generation among the Hopi. The author has presented them as fine literature; they can be read for their cultural value or for a unique reading experience.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carrie E Garrow Publisher Comments This text is a comprehensive introduction to tribal criminal law and procedure in the United States. Garrow and Deer discuss in depth the histories, structures and practices of tribal justice systems, comparisons of traditional tribal justice with Anglo... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas W Dunlay Publisher Comments Following the Civil War, Indian scouts and auxiliaries played a central role in subduing the western Indians and removing them from the path of white settlement. In this comprehensive account of these "wolves" (as scouts were designated in sign language),... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being “strange,” fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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